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  • III-V - Monday, May 18, 2015 - link

    Been having a lot of issues with my HD 7750... not sure if it's immature drivers, my Windows installation, or if it's my card. I had to reinstall Windows 10 after an update -- to what I believe was the most recent build -- kept freezing. Now Windows is stable, but I have a feeling it's the same underlying issue.

    Specifically, they're browser issues. Doesn't seem to matter which browser, 3D acceleration or not -- I get black corruption on occasion. Chrome doesn't get it as bad, and doesn't crash, but Waterfox and Firefox would get really corrupted rendering and crash a lot. I want to give Edge/Spartan a try, but not having Ad-Block is a dealbreaker.

    My instability issues aside, Windows 10 has been okay. I don't like that a lot of the control panel-type settings are only available in the fullscreen, "modern UI" mode. I liked Windows 8/8.1 a lot, so in this way, Windows 10 feels like a regression. In particular, I'd really like the old Windows Update launching in Windows Explorer -- the fullscreen app sucks. People that didn't care for Windows 8 may find Windows 10 more palatable than Win8 was, though.
  • sunny_87 - Saturday, May 23, 2015 - link

    Similar here. After recommended driver update, pc ends with a black screen. Forced HW reboot, then monitor goes to sleep mode directly. After couple of reboots i realized it puts display port off work. Luckily via DVI cable install & safe mode, was able to rollback this piece of pain. Driver error was like `card reported an isuue'. Ev3a 770 & win 8.1 here.
  • HollyDOL - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link

    GTX 580 here, not a single issue with graphics since I moved to Win10 in January, fingers crossed it keeps that way...
    for your sake let's hope famous era of lousy AMD (ATI back then) drivers won't be back.
  • przemo_li - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link

    DX12 have much easier driver architecture. A lot.

    Only lacking feature in Win10 is distribution of graphic drivers in shape gpu manufacturers dean necessary. Good luck finding Vulkan with MS provided Windows Update drivers.
  • inighthawki - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link

    DX12 is not the same thing as WDDMv2. WDDM is the driver model, and all of the various graphics platforms/runtimes require new drivers. WDDMv2 requires a brand new driver for DX9, DX11, DX12, OpenGL, CUDA, Mantle, etc.

    WDDMv2 introduces GPU virtual memory support and a buttload of new asynchronous residency features, both of which I'm sure very much complicate driver development beyond what they had to do before. I would certainly not expect this to be an easy set of features to support without running into issues.

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/h...
  • przemo_li - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link

    While Windows Update, is good to have....

    Its HORRIBLE from standpoint of gamers/professionals.

    First group wont have castrated drivers (MS strip anything from drivers that do not have extensive MS made test suite - guess how MS treat eg. OpneGL... or will treat Vulkan....).

    Second need more stability (as drivers are certified to work with app X, and that is that).

    Shame that MS wont do something about first group needs.
  • A5 - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link

    From their perspective, they are much better off serving the 95% of their market that doesn't care about games.

    And it isn't like the WHQL drivers in Windows Update are bad, they're just a bit behind the bleeding edge.
  • MrSpadge - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link

    It's a pretty good sign for nVidia that in comment regarding their new driver people only chat about AMD GPU drivers and Windows.

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